#But please. Please. Watch a good movie

[rotzaprachim]

the thing about y tu mamá también is that it is far, far too good a movie to be lumped in with Tumblr nonsense and it’s absolutely about class and neoliberalism and the early aughts political situation in Mexico in light of hundreds of years of history and bisexuality and the inevitability of fate as everyone hurtles down paths set from before the movie ever began. But it’s also a wild movie to look at in light of the current tumblr dramas over queerbaiting and why would a character lie to the audience. I saw someone on here say this movie wasn’t gay enough, because collectively jacking off with your bestie on parallel diving boards is a famously heterosexual thing to do. My point is that the folks who lost it over the 2020 destiel confession would have outright died in the theatre over the circa 2001 julioch kiss

[mellosghosts]

in my heart this joke is in the movie, but unfortunately im afraid only we, hughjackmaniacs, would get it 🥀

[inkskinned]

this is just my opinion but i think any good media needs obsession behind it. it needs passion, the kind of passion that's no longer "gentle scented candle" and is now "oh shit the house caught on fire". it needs a creator that's biting the floorboards and gnawing the story off their skin. creators are supposed to be wild animals. they are supposed to want to tell a story with the ferocity of eating a good stone fruit while standing over the sink. the same protective, strange instinct as being 7 and making mud potions in pink teacups: you gotta get weird with it.

good media needs unhinged, googling-at-midnight kind of energy. it needs "what kind of seams are invented on this planet" energy and "im just gonna trust the audience to roll with me about this" energy. it needs one person (at least) screaming into the void with so much drive and energy that it forces the story to be real.

sometimes people are baffled when fanfic has some stunning jaw-dropping tattoo-it-on-you lines. and i'm like - well, i don't go here, but that makes sense to me. of fucking course people who have this amount of passion are going to create something good. they moved from a place of genuine love and enjoyment.

so yeah, duh! saturday cartoons have banger lines. random street art is sometimes the most precious heart-wrenching shit you've ever seen. someone singing on tiktok ends up creating your next favorite song. youtubers are giving us 5 hours of carefully researched content. all of this is the impossible equation to latestage capitalism. like, you can't force something to be good. AI cannot make it good. no amount of focus-group testing or market research. what makes a story worth listening to is that someone cares so much about telling it - through dance, art, music, whatever it takes - that they are just a little unhinged about it.

one time my friend told me he stayed up all night researching how many ways there are to peel an orange. he wrote me a poem that made me cry on public transportation. the love came through it like pith, you know? the words all came apart in my hands. it tasted like breakfast.

[novelconcepts]

I Saw the TV Glow is such a uniquely, devastatingly queer story. Two queer kids trapped in suburbia. Both of them sensing something isn’t quite right with their lives. Both of them knowing that wrongness could kill them. One of them getting out, trying on new names, new places, new ways of being. Trying to claw her way to fully understanding herself, trying to grasp the true reality of her existence. Succeeding. Going back to help the other, to try so desperately to rescue an old friend, to show the path forward. Being called crazy. Because, to someone who hasn’t gotten out, even trying seems crazy. Feels crazy. Looks, on the surface, like dying.

And to have that other queer kid be so terrified of the internal revolution that is accepting himself that he inadvertently stays buried. Stays in a situation that will suffocate him. Choke the life out of him. Choke the joy out of him. Have him so terrified of possibly being crazy that he, instead, lives with a repression so extreme, it quite literally is killing him. And still, still, he apologizes for it. Apologizes over and over and over, to people who don’t see him. Who never have. Who never will. Because it’s better than being crazy. Because it’s safer than digging his way out. Killing the image everyone sees to rise again as something free and true and authentic. My god. My god, this movie. It shattered me.

[sceebybeeby]

someone has to have done this

[tianhai03]

i watched re death island today!!!!!1 it was really good!!!!!!!!! had to draw smth to celebrate :)

[qkmlh]

I’m a simple soul

I see a hot blooded trauma fueled man with an ego and daddy issues become an unwilling single mother who then steps up after multiple trials and errors to grow into a proper parent that fights tooth and nail for his daughter AND face said daddy issues head on for the betterment of his child thus reconciling and healing his own relationship with his father and bringing an enthusiastic grandpa into the mix

and I crumble

[milimeters-morales]

Pavitr definitely told his Maya Aunty about Miles’s embarrassing mistake btw trust me

[dragonpyre]

Btw if anyone hasn’t seen it, Gotham By Gaslight is a fucking insane movie. It’s Victorian England but on the east coast. Jack the Ripper is there. Bruce supports women’s suffrage. Alfred gives him three orphans to raise unprompted

[chaoticfvckingdisaster]

Forget about Barbieheimer what about Miraculous Omens in 6 days

[goryghostieguts]

🤘🏼💥 𝔐𝔢𝔱𝔞𝔩 💥🤘🏼

[skeletonzimms]

boy best friends playing together in juniors to bitter sort-of-exes playing against each other in pro sports is my favorite thing

[yayee-prsp]

[yippee-optimistically]

hey guys not to be peculiar on side blog but i am a bcg fan now they r so funny (i have been mimicking their accepts for like 4 days)

[lilies-and-pigeonpeas]

More Ferris Bueller crossover bc I needed to get it out of my system (I had more but I think I'm done lol)

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price and Peter Lorre

The Comedy of Terrors (1963) dir. Jacques Tourneur